title: Single-center experience on endovascular repair of noninfected extracranial internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysms.
abstract: In the period ranging from 2006 to 2010, 5 endovascular interventions for carotid pseudoaneurysm (4 post-carotid endarterectomy [post-CEA] and 1 posttraumatic), without signs of infection, were carried out. All patients were neurologically asymptomatic. A covered stent was used in 4 cases. The fifth patient, undergoing a third endovascular procedure after a re-do open surgical repair of a post-CEA pseudoaneurysm, was treated with a bare stent. The technical success rate was 100%. A type 1 endoleak at the end of the procedure was observed in 1 patient, but it disappeared before discharging. No perioperative neurologic events occurred. At the most recent mean follow-up of 24 months, all patients are alive, without neurologic symptoms, and all have maintained patency of the internal carotid artery and are pseudoaneurysm-free.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. rpulli@unifl.it
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pulli
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dorigo
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pratesi
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fargion
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pratesi
mesh_terms: D020212:Carotid Artery Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016894:Endarterectomy, Carotid; D057510:Endovascular Procedures; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents